Nick Hubble is a writer and academic who lives in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. Nick is the author of Mass-Observation and Everyday Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006; second edition 2010) and (with Philip Tew) of Ageing, Narrative and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and the co-editor (with Aris Mousoutzanis) of the Science Fiction Handbook (Bloomsbury, 2013). Nick is currently writing a book exploring the relationship between proletarian literature and modernism.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Puns, Riddles, High Seriousness, and Talking Animals
DESPITE ITS FRENCH TITLE, Adam Robert’s fourteenth novel, Bête, is very much a condition of England novel, albeit set ...
A Subtle Weave of Layers
DESPITE INVOLVING GLOBAL apocalypse, planetary colonization, and an evangelical mission to preach to aliens, Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange ...
A Ceaseless Storm of Matter and Energy
NEAR THE BEGINNING of Monica Byrne’s relentlessly kinetic debut novel, The Girl in the Road, her protagonist, Meena, comments that “...
Fairy-Tale Catastrophe Reborn
REGARDLESS OF ALL the discussion of Margaret Atwood’s relationship to science fiction, and regardless of her own insistence, in her ...
The Pleasures and Perils of Adjacency: Chrisopher Priest’s “The Adjacent”
IN ONE OF the sections of Christopher Priest’s 13th and latest novel, The Adjacent, a stage illusionist known as The ...
